The process of bid evaluation is subject to indetermination, imprecision, and uncertainty in terms of their alternative-criterion decision appraisals. To address this issue, this paper develops a novel ELECTRE III-based MCGDM approach for bid evaluation, in which generalized comparative linguistic expressions (GCLEs) are used to evaluate bidder performance. The collected GCLEs are further transformed into possibility-distribution-based hesitant fuzzy linguistic-term sets (HFLTSs) to facilitate the qualitative construction of individual expertise. A consensus-reaching process is introduced to promote decisions that are agreed upon by experts and thereby ensure an enhanced state of mutual agreement among the experts. Subsequently, an integrated subjective-objective approach is proposed to calculate criterion weights and to implement an ELECTRE III-based method that incorporates HFLTS possibility distributions, which allows us to treat the indetermination, imprecision, and uncertainty embedded in appraisals of alternative-criterion decisions when evaluating bids. The potential advantages of the proposed approach are validated by a real-life contractor-selection case.

投标评估过程的备选标准决策评估存在不确定性，不精确性和不确定性。为了解决这个问题，本文开发了一种新颖的基于ELECTRE III的MCGDM方法进行投标评估，其中使用广义的比较语言表达（GCLE）来评估投标人的表现。收集到的GCLE被进一步转换为基于可能性分布的犹豫模糊语言术语集（HFLTS），以促进个人专业知识的定性构建。引入达成共识的过程以促进专家同意的决策，从而确保专家之间相互协议的状态提高。随后，提出了一种综合的主观-客观方法来计算标准权重，并实现基于ELECTRE III的方法，该方法结合了HFLTS可能性分布，这使我们能够在评估出价时处理替代标准决策评估中所包含的不确定性，不精确性和不确定性。通过实际承包商选择案例验证了所提出方法的潜在优势。